From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V4 #241 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Saturday, August 24 2002 Volume 04 : Number 241 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] courier [John Alvord ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 00:32:13 -0700 From: John Alvord Subject: Re: [RS] courier On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 23:57:36 -0700, Lisa Davis & Family wrote: >Rabbi Lea Gavrieli wrote: > >> >Hi All, >> >> as a clergy person, I'd have to say that I feel a strong sense of > >This thread has come up before, but how do you as a rabbi feel about all the >Christian imagery in Richard's songs? I know he always SAYS it is simply a >shorthand, or a source of great stories, and that the spirituality being >expressed, or addressed, is much broader, not exclusive, or whatever, but there >is just an awful lot that ties in with New Testament. As someone who has >precious little "religious" education behind me, sometimes I feel the way I did >in college trying to fathom Milton, I just don't "get" various references but >sense they are there. At the same time, sometimes when I've given Richard's CDs >to Jewish friends I've felt awkward by the quantity of references, on the >supposition that they would "get the wrong idea" that these are somehow >"christian" songs. > >Lisa Davis I've often wondered about the Christian imagery in Beyond the Iron Gate. It feels to me like Jesus after the cruxifiction, laid to rest in the tomb, which was protected by iron gates. After he is resurected and goes out, he seems some people who were waiting for him. There is a critical phase - about going out to a "world made right" which is a typically Christian phrase about how the death of Jesus saved the world from its sins. john alvord ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V4 #241 ***********************************